Prime will screen the highly- anticipated documentary film Targeting Bin Laden detailing the USA’s audacious plan to seek and destroy Osama Bin Laden, and featuring President Barack Obama’s first documentary interview on the subject at 8.30pm on Wednesday 7th September, just hours after its international debut.

Targeting Bin Laden brings the complex operation to life with a full-scale reconstruction of the CIA surveillance operation in Pakistan and the raid itself.

Prime Channel Manager Kathy Wright said the channel was delighted to have secured this fascinating documentary from the Emmy-award winning Nutopia and to be able to screen it to New Zealand audiences in such a timely manner.

“It is an important documentation of one of the most significant recent historical events, and we know our viewers will find the combination of exclusive interviews, original sources and dramatic reconstructions fascinating.” She said.

Produced by Nutopia, the mould-breaking documentary and reality production company founded by former BBC2 Controller and Discovery US President Jane Root, and commissioned by Julian Hobbs and Susan Werbe at HISTORY and Hamish Mykura at Channel 4, Targeting Bin Laden will be broadcast in the run up to the 10th anniversary of 9/11, airing in the US on HISTORY on 6th September. Entitled Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill in the UK, the docudrama will air on Channel 4 on 7th September.

Targeting Bin Laden is executive produced by Jane Root, directed by Bruce Goodison and produced by Phil Craig, producer of numerous award winning documentaries and docu-dramas covering a vast range of subjects as well as six films about America’s secret war with Al Qaeda, including the Emmy-nominated Flight That Fought Back. Field producers: Christina Bavetta (The Flight That Fought Back), Talya Tibbon.

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